The Event was a County Wide Communications Drill

With the significant wet environment early in the year, it was decided that MV ARES should make this drill a
review of the high water points along Stevens Creek and Permanente Creek in Mountain View. This melds
both Ham radio skills and CERT assessment skills to achieve better results and mutual understanding.

The Objectives were to
deploy radio operators in cars with mobile radios and observers to visit each designated stream observation
point and report the status of the creek to net control at K6MTV. It was also suggested that pictures should be taken
at each survey point looking up stream and down stream. This turned out to be a very good idea as you will
see from the pictures. Since Mountain View ARES works closely with Mountain View CERT, it was suggested
to invite Mountain View CERT members to ride along.

Included in the objectives were:

Confirm that our stream survey locations/instructions are correct

Check on both mobile and HT simplex coverage to the stream survey sites

Clarify if both upstream and downstream observation is possible and any related issues

Identify any real time issues at any site.

Below, are thumbnail images from each of the survey locations. Click on a
thumbnail image, and a web page with pictures and observations of that survey location will be shown
in a new browser tab.